The Hans Filbinger Foundation is a German Christian Democratic foundation that was founded in 1993 by around 100 members of Studienzentrum Weikersheim

Studienzentrum Weikersheim

Studienzentrum Weikersheim is a conservative and christian democratic German political think tank, that was founded in 1979 by Hans Filbinger, Helmut Metzner and others on Schloss Weikersheim in Germany.-Presidents:...

, including Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder

Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder

Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder , often called "MV", is the current Vice President of the Union of European Football Associations . Prior to his UEFA career, Mayer-Vorfelder was a politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, and served in the state cabinet of Baden-Württemberg from 1976 to 1998...

 (at the time Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Finance) and leading journalist Gerhard Löwenthal

Gerhard Löwenthal

Gerhard Löwenthal was a prominent German journalist, human rights activist and author. He presented the ZDF-Magazin, a news magazine of ZDF which highlighted human rights abuses in communist-ruled Eastern Europe, from 1969 to 1987...

. It is named after CDU politician Hans Filbinger

Hans Filbinger

Hans Karl Filbinger was a conservative German politician and a leading member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union in the 1960s and 1970s, serving as the first chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg and vice chairman of the federal CDU...

, the long-time Minister President of Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...

. Since 2005, the foundation awards the Hans Filbinger Prize .